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this concept video we're gonna discuss the member question how do I figure out

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my matchups so I mentioned a number of times about Jack Nicholas's comment that

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most good players have three to five keys that make their swing work and

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basically when they're warming up or throughout the season they're when they're

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off it's one of those three to five keys well in order to figure out your

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three to five keys you're gonna have to experiment with a number of different

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pieces but I want to give a quick little guide as to how you're likely going to

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figure them out how I've figured out mine and how a lot of my students have

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figured out theirs so typically we're gonna start with video we want to have

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a model we want to have a guide as to where we're trying to get to that way

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we're not just going off of the feel of contact there's some times where you'll

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hit it great but if the video doesn't change then it's usually not sustainable

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it's only gonna last for a day around a few balls who knows but so the the

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video will help guide the overall progress as far as the big pieces that

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you're going to work on and then what you'll typically find is you'll either

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have areas that consistently help solve the same problem multiple times or you

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'll

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have consistent areas where anytime you work on it you get worse so I'll talk

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through each of those so the first one is the ones that make it better so let's

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say you consistently have the same problem let's say you're you're hitting

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it fat because you're getting too much tilt like this and so one day you notice

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it on video and you set up a pool noodle and you work on your upper body

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covering the ball kind of like this well you feel that okay that upper body

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covering the ball I hit the ball great that day it was working good for a

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couple practices and then I started hitting it fat I looked at it on video

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and I was falling back into this pattern I quickly remember it oh I need to get

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more on top and I started to hit it well again so when the same issue solves

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the

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same problem multiple times in a row usually I say at least three times in a

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row that's usually gonna be one of your keys now what could evolve with that is

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maybe the first time I feel like my chest is covering my lower body maybe the

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second time I feel like my lower body is rotating or staying more centered

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instead of kind of too much tilt or too much slide I might feel like my hips

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are

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back I might feel a complementary piece to it and that can either become one

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key

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like my whole pivot feels this way or two keys like okay hips back chest

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forward and I almost never chunk the ball so it solves a specific problem so

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that would be how you're gonna build your keys the first version the second

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version is sometimes there are things that you consistently see and you try to

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work on and whenever you work on it it gets worse that just means that you

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haven't quite figured out the part and it's so ingrained in your swing that if

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you try to disrupt it it's gonna break some of the other patterns give you an

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example of maybe someone who tends to pull down in transition and any time they

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work on shallowing they do it too much with the body or they do it late like it

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doesn't actually change the pattern if that's the case then in the short term I

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would say okay that's part of my my pattern I'm not gonna be able to change

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that today I'm gonna wait until I have enough time to really work on it so I'm

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probably gonna work on complementary keys if that's the case I might work on

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more of a rhythm or a timing and that could become one of my three three to

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five keys so I'll tell you mine for this year have revolved around either

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using my abs I actually had a hernia surgery two years ago so I've done a

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bunch of work for getting my core working better and that's freed me up to

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feel some things that I wasn't able to feel previously so there's a feeling

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that

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I get in my abs especially during transition when I do that there's a

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completely different rhythmic feel and it feels like a good feel like a

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effortless power type scenario so my key number one this year has been using my

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abs part of that revolves around a little bit better a little bit less

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slide and a little bit better bracing and then to complement that I've had to

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work a little bit more on the wipe and a little bit more on the ulnar deviation

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so over the course of this year most of the weeks when I've hit the ball really

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well and and played pretty well in some of the playing lessons my keys have

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been

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on one of those three pieces or sometimes two or even all three of those

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pieces there have been times where it was a blend of abs and release that kind

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of encompassed those three keys for me I've experimented with a number of

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different things whether it's a backswing pivot whether it's a loading whether

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it's lengthening to try to get a little bit more speed and those are kind of

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part of the the long-term goal but right now my three keys that help me play

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the

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ball really well or hit the ball really well feeling the abs getting a little

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bit more of that trail arm wipe and then getting that good ulnar deviation all

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the way through impact when I do that it consistently solves my pattern of

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getting a little bit picky or a little thin with my contact and hitting a

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little bit more of an overdraw those go away I hit the ball much more solid and

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far when I've worked on those keys and they've cycled I haven't worked on them

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explicitly the entire time it might be I work on the wipe for a couple

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practices

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I start drifting I work on the wipe again I start drifting to something new I

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come

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back to it but what I've noticed is over this year the times when I've hit the

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ball great it's it's I've had the same problem I was trying to solve both on

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video and contact wise and those three keys have been how I've been able to

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solve it so when you use video and to dial in your feedback and you figure out

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how to change the picture those will likely contribute to your keys and as you

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work through them and consistently the same keys solve the same problems you'll

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become more confident more durable and more resilient in being able to maintain

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your higher level of ball striking all right so let's see if we can throw one

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together where we get all of our keys so we're gonna feel the ab with the the

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white movement for me and then the ulnar deviation late so a little bit of the

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overdraw didn't quite feel the ab the way that I wanted felt a little bit too

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much

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leg in back so let's do that one more time this time we're gonna really focus

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on the ab feel we had the other day there we go so that I covered it a little

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bit more the wind took it late but it came out just the way that I want so now

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I can challenge it by picking different targets working on different lengths of

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swings and tempos changing clubs but I've got my keys ready to go play kind of

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like that